Global Power Shift? Putin and Xi Skip BRICS Summit as Group Faces Crisis of Purpose
Putin and Xi Skip BRICS Summit — Is the Bloc Losing Relevance?
Brazil Hosts Without Two Key Power Players as Expansion Strains BRICS Unity
As the BRICS summit convenes in Brazil this weekend, the conspicuous absence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin sends a powerful signal: the once-promising coalition of emerging powers may be struggling to define its purpose in an increasingly fractured world order.
What began as a counterweight to G7 dominance now risks becoming a patchwork of divergent agendas. Rapid expansion, mounting geopolitical differences, and internal contradictions are testing the coherence—and influence—of the bloc.
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